Sic Pup wrote:Not exactly animal (neither mineral nor vegetable either) but I saw quite a variety and frequency of different insects this year ranging from spiders, to flies, to moths to other unknown crawlies.

I saw way more insects out there than ever before as well - house flies, moths, assorted winged things. Having a house fly appear in the RV on day 3 was just annoying.

It's a camping trip in the desert, not the redemption of the fallen world - Cryptofishist

Besides human animals, I saw lots of crows Tuesday morning after the burn. They seemed to be pecking at moopy food bits or something. A few spiders in my own van through out the week, and a dragonfly on or about Friday.

this story was relayed to me by a guy at the sands, he camped with a fellow who brought a kitten to the burn. the kitten was so young, its eyes weren't even open, and they had to feed it via eye dropper. apparently one of their hitch hikers wasn't paying attention and fed the kitty out of a pee jug. kit died the next day.

W.T.F?!

"Settle down you two and play nice - or no dubstep for either." mdmf007"Just look for camp 'Bad Mother Fucker' and ask for Jules." Supafly_fresh

This is MOOP our pet for the week. Pretty close to 2 inches long. We secured him in a jar with proper
venting and housing. It helps when two of us have gone to herp school.
We set him loose on Tues way way way out on the back roads.

Cool observation! On the offhand chance anyone is still following this ancient thread...

I've started a project to document non-human life in BRC (www.inaturalist.org/places/black-rock-city-nv-us). I've added this photo, along with your comments and a link-back. If you'd rather do it yourself, let me know and I'll delete my version. Thanks!

it flew down on my camp panting and quickly disappeared after people chased it with cameras and water. weirdness!

Cool observation! On the offhand chance anyone is still following this ancient thread...

I've started a project to document non-human life in BRC (www.inaturalist.org/places/black-rock-city-nv-us). I've added this photo, along with your comments and a link-back. If you'd rather do it yourself, let me know and I'll delete my version. Thanks!

This was my virgin year, so I'm not sure what the norm is out there, but I saw a lot of pets that people snuck in. A lady camping across the street from me had a cat walking around camp all week, out on the open playa I ran into a guy with a little yorkie in his bike basket, and I repeatedly saw a man riding his bike with a dog (on leash) running along side him. Oh and I saw another cat when I was out riding around the city (can't remember where I was though)